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Letter

From
Nick Reeves, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management

The former British environment minister Michael Meacher is right to say that “what people want to know is…whether it [GM food] is inherently completely safe” (2 August, p 21). And as we all know, this has not yet been proven. In the meantime the GM battleground is being, and probably will be, won by PR people rather than sound science.

Already restaurants and retail food outlets in the UK are promoting their premises as “GM-free zones” in response to a growing public perception that GM means unhealthy and adulterated food. So Meacher needn’t worry too much, because the …